{"id":89752,"date":"2021-12-11T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T07:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=89752"},"modified":"2021-12-11T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T07:47:42","slug":"fg-paving-way-gor-another-strike-asuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fg-paving-way-gor-another-strike-asuu\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Paving Way Gor Another Strike -ASUU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m24461\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU says the Federal Government has yet to respond to its demands after the expiration of its three-week ultimatum.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \">\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAbuja zonal coordinator of ASUU, Dr Salahu Lawal, told a news conference in Abuja that by its intransigence, government was paving way for another strike by the union.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that government was doing this by ignoring outstanding issues in the MoU of December, 2020, and the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) signed with the union in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The zone comprises Federal University of Lafia, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, and the University of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur union finds it highly hypocritical for a government to freely sign MoU or MoA to get ASUU to suspend a strike and then turn around to ignore their implementation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; More than one year since our union suspended the nine-month long national strike, the Federal Government is yet to respond to key demands,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur demands remain the full implementation of the 2009 FGN\/ASUU Agreement as renegotiated in 2021, based on ILO\u2019s collective bargaining principles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implementation of all outstanding provisions in the February 2021 FGN\/ASUU Memorandum of Action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe immediate deployment\u00a0 of ASUU\u2019S innovation of a more robust system of human resource management and compensation, called the UTAS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediate payment of outstanding Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) and promotions arrears to our members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediate release of the report of the Presidential Visitation Panels to federal universities in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Immediate action on the recommendations of the Committee on State Universities,\u2019\u2019 Lawal added.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, meeting these demands of ASUU will go a long way to address the deplorable conditions in which varsity students live and learn.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal called on relevant stakeholders to impress it on the government to honour its agreement with the union to avert another likely industrial crisis in Nigerian universities<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU says the Federal Government has yet to respond to its demands after the expiration of its three-week ultimatum. 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